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The household of physically challenged Scheduled Caste younker John, who was murdered by an equipped pack belonging to an intermediate caste astatine Perumpathu Indra Colony adjacent Nanguneri connected the nighttime of March 2, received his assemblage connected Monday and performed the past rites.
After a bid of negotiations by constabulary and authorities officials with the victim’s woman Kannagi, a non-verbal pistillate with 2 miss children, and relatives, they agreed to person the body, which was handed implicit to them astatine the Cadaver Research Centre connected Palayamkottai – Tiruchendur Highway astir Monday noon. The assemblage was taken to Perumpathu Indra Colony with choky constabulary extortion and buried astir 2.30 p.m.
When John, 42, migrant ceramic kiln idiosyncratic from Odisha Trianth Katta, 50, and a fewer others were lasting successful beforehand of a roadside teashop successful Perumpathu Indra Colony connected the nighttime of March 2, an equipped pack that came connected 3 bikes hacked each of them indiscriminately with lethal weapons.
While John and Trinath were killed connected the spot, A. Nelson, 55, V. Ramasamy, 80, P. Prabhakaran, 50, each from Nadar Street successful Perumpathu, and A. Ganesan, 50 of Meerankulam sustained grievous aggregate chopped injuries. The assailants besides hacked S. Sasikumar, 40, astatine Kadamboduvazhvu adjacent Kalakkad and took his bike.
As this unprovoked sidesplitting of innocents triggered statewide outrage from each sections of society, the police, aft forming 3 peculiar teams, nabbed S. Kannan, 21, P. Antony Michael, 18, M. Subbaiah alias Subhash, 19, S. Kalyani, 19, each from Thennimalai, A. Uchimakali alias Mittai, 20, of Valliyoor, M. Vasanthakumar, 21, of Nedunkulam, and M. Raja, 19, of Nanguneri.
Subbaiah and Kalyani person besides been accused of attempting to execution SC pupil Chinnadurai and his younger sister aft trespassing into their location successful Nanguneri connected August 9, 2023.
During investigation, the constabulary recovered that posters released by a fewer from Perumpathu Indra Colony successful representation of encountered history-sheeter ‘Manalmedu’ Shankar was the contiguous crushed for this attack.
The household of John refused to judge the assemblage portion different villagers blocked roadworthy and held different protests adjacent their colony arsenic 4 others from their hamlet had been hacked by them. They said the “oppressive forces from an intermediate caste” had unleashed this attack.
The constabulary persuaded the protesters to judge the assemblage of John connected Monday portion the household of Trinath Katta had received the assemblage and cremated it present connected the adjacent time itself. Even though John’s household was fixed ex-gratia and promised of a escaped house, nary specified alleviation was fixed to the household of Trinath Katta, the villagers said.
